Barabus to unveil an 270mph car!

[Bernardo]

Barabus will unveil a new 270 mph car this week. The car will cost under $500,000, and offer 1000 horsepower via a 6.0 liter twin-turbo V8. The car has been in development for over ten years. 0-60 mph is rumored in the two second range. We'll keep you posted as soon as the official information is released. [Thanks to JohnnyBlazE for the tip].

From: http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/07/19/thousand-horsepower-270-mph-barabus-due-soon/

CANT WAIT!!! :twisted:

[MartijnGizmo]

Sounds like it'll be their own design. Or they used a 10 year old Mercedes. :)

[black_magician]

..... I don't know about this, I'm kinda suspicious. 10 years of R&D and it's under $500 grand? I'll have to see it to believe it. and isn't it called Brabus, not Barabus?

[MartijnGizmo]

Oh wait, Barabus is correct. I was thinking Brabus, the Mercedes-tuner, but we're talking about this:
http://www.autoblog.nl/images/wp/Barabus%20front%20-%20london.jpg

[black_magician]

ooohhhhh, ok. I've never heard of Barabus. Thats crazy lookin, reminds me of the Salleen S7. :mrgreen:

[Bernardo]

never heard about it too, but it sounds like some BRABUS other division, like with their own designs...maybe there is any connection despite their names?
I kinda like it, doesn't look so bad.and its cheap for its perfomance.

[SPEEDCORE]

http://www.barabus.info/ they have a website and according to the website its going to be revealed today at the motorshow.

[yg60m]

Interesting but the look is quite ugly ...

[nickthaskater]

That windshield is really really really really really clear...

[jorge]

I also tought it was Brabus instead of Barabus.
I´ve never heard of the car, but the interesting part is if they are going to be able to sell it :|

[AlienDB7]

Additional pics of the car at http://www.autoblog.com/2006/07/21/barabus-1000-bhp-supercar/

[saadie]

another wannabe in the supercar league ... :roll:
most of the new cars have the same lines ...... tis one is another one of em :? ....
look at the rim's ... they arent even original
:lol: :lol:

[nthfinity]

oh boy....

this is what happens when style is copied from other people... i wonder if the body was done in South Africa like Noble?

still.... i wonder how fast the XJ220 would go with a 1000 hp engine with its slippery shape

[LotusGT1]

Am I the only one who lost interest in all these cars with little added value but something academic like a 270 mph topspeed?

I'd rather cars like TVR, with boatloads of character...

[nthfinity]

or a Vector w8 that just happens to also go 242 mph :) ;)

[LotusGT1]

Can't get over its looks, but at least it has character :)

[bmagni]

is the one in the picture the super fast car ??

[saadie]

http://www.barabus.info/images/tkr_bodywork2.jpg
http://www.barabus.info/images/tkr_bodywork1.jpg
http://www.barabus.info/images/tkr_bodywork3.jpg

http://www.barabus.info/images/tkr_main_header.jpg

;)

[bmagni]

1.67 secs ??? is that possible ??????

the backs looks like a exact copy of the Zonda

[LotusGT1]

Yes, the resemblance is striking :shock:

[saadie]

yeah .. everyhting is possible .. :lol: ... not always though

and ot exactly .. this thins is a fuck load uglier then the zonda :lol:

[salegosse]

Looks like a big joke. It has the design of kit car replica.

Weird, Bullshit, Ugly... we can use plenty words to describe this thing. :|

Do you really imagine going more than 200miles in that car ? Scary...

Goodbye abracadabus ! You will not enter history.

[Shinigami]

Looking like a kit car in itself is not a bad thing, but when paying half a million bucks for a car, you want it to at least look like something worth that much, and unfortunately "kit" cars don't look like half a million bucks.

Nevermind, this doesn't even look all that good, but who knows. Maybe the numbers are worth something.

[sentra_dude]

LOL at 0-60 in 1.67s...the only way you're going to get that is with slicks!

Its pretty damn ugly...and really doesn't look very special, and seems to be a mish-mash of design elements from many other supercars. It looks almost like a kit car to me, which is unfortunate if its been in development for 10 years!

Has anyone noticed that all the pictures, except for one, are from the exact same angle...? And that the mesh grill looks like it came from Pep-Boys!

It may be fast but you need more than a claim of 1000hp and 0-60 in 1.67s to be a serious supercar.

[TNT]

speaking of Saleen S7, has there been an official topspeed run in the new(er) Twin turbo model?

[Ford Capri 2.8i]

It looks interesting the new project or proposition, and actually the brand looks a bit hilarious IMO

On the other hand, in terms of the cars price, Im 200% confident that the market gets the price, and therefore the cars value is $500,000 just because there is a market capable of paying this price

[DeMoN]

dont care how much of a ripoff that is, if it does 1.67 secs, I like!

[jorge]

or a Vector w8 that just happens to also go 242 mph :) ;)

:shock: i didn´t know that, is it true? :?

[Sir_GT]

That car's a massive April Fools joke.

"We can hit 100kph in under 2 seconds because our computer says so!"

Pppppppppppppppppppppffffffft. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

And a Formula 1 car worth 3x as much and backed by funding close to USD400M can only hit the same 0-100 as a Veyron, which I may add, cost a motherload to develop.

Whatever.

Whoever pays $500 grand for that is going to be the biggest moron in history. He'll realize that once his fake made-in-thailand wheels come off at 50kph.

[fsandys]

I have some pictures of it from the Motor Show, I'll upload later.

I also had a chat with a guy from Barabus but I'll tell you with the pics.

To be honest I like the idea of a car faster than the veyron built partly in the UK and partly in Italy :D

If it manages a 0-60 in anywhere near that time, I'll like it for that alone!

[fsandys]

Here are some reduced, un-edited and quickly snapped pics.

They've already sold 2 or 3 apparently :D

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/8153/barabusoneyu7.th.jpg (http://img126.imageshack.us/my.php?image=barabusoneyu7.jpg) http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/4121/barabustwopd5.th.jpg (http://img457.imageshack.us/my.php?image=barabustwopd5.jpg) http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/3355/barabusthreeeou3.th.jpg (http://img457.imageshack.us/my.php?image=barabusthreeeou3.jpg)
http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/2130/barabusfourud9.th.jpg (http://img457.imageshack.us/my.php?image=barabusfourud9.jpg) http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/3145/barabusfivedz5.th.jpg (http://img457.imageshack.us/my.php?image=barabusfivedz5.jpg)

[fsandys]

Oh and it's called the 'TKR', more info below...

http://www.barabus.info/tkr.asp